Trucks Collection (page 5)

British Expeditionary Force arrive in France, 1939
A British column of Army lorries is cheerily greeted by French military motor cyclists as it moves through a French village in the early weeks of World War Two. Date: 1939

Richard Boss Crokers horses, Dublin, Ireland
Horses belonging to Richard Boss Croker, an Irishman who emigrated to America as his family fled the potato famine, and worked successively as barman

Llanelli railway strike riots, Wales
One of the coal-carrying trucks in Llanelli, Wales, which rioters wrecked during the railway strike. 1911

British Army transport trucks, 1939
Transport trucks of the British Army in France, laden with equipment and food, starting out for the days journey. Date: 1939

Women transport drivers, World War Two, 1939
A female driver handling a big Army Service Corps lorry during World War II. Date: 1939

Vigo, Spain - the Railway Goods Yards Date: circa 1907

Slingsby Truck - 3
Undertakers bier carriage (This is just one of 100s of trucks etc in this catalogue) Date: circa 1900

British troops boarding a train, Western Front, WW1
British troops of a Midland Regiment boarding a train on the Western Front during the First World War, after a spell in the trenches of Flanders. Date: 1914-1918

British troops waving from a train, Western Front, WW1
British troops waving from a train on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Slingsby Truck - 4
Jinrikisha [sic} (also known as rickshaw) (This is just one of 100s of trucks etc in this catalogue) Date: circa 1900

Commer Van 1914
Commer Braintree chassis for a 2-ton load. Date: 1914

Commer Laundfry Van
The Van illustrated here ran 66, 570 miles up to June 1st 1914 and is as good as when first delivered... Date: 1914

COMMER VAN 1914 - 2
Commer Leeds chassis for a 4 1/2-ton load. Date: 1914

Slingsby chemists truck
Chemists truck. (This is just one of 100s of trucks etc in this catalogue) circa 1900

Slingsby Truck - 5
Express carrier tricycle (This is just one of 100s of trucks etc in this catalogue) Date: circa 1900

Commer 6-Ton Truck
Commer Manchester chassis for a 6-ton load. Date: 1914

Slingsby Truck - 6
Oxygen bottle truck (This is just one of 100s of specialisefd trucks etc in this catalogue) Date: circa 1900

Slingsby Truck - 1
Grocers truck. (This is just one of 100s of trucks etc in this catalogue) Date: circa 1900

Italian infantry in wood near Rheims, France, WW1
Italian infantry in France during the First World War. Showing transportation trucks and men on a road in a wood near Rheims, north eastern France. Date: June 1918

American troop transport near Moulins, France, WW1
American troop transport on a road west of Moulins, northern France, during the First World War. The men of the 7th Infantry are being transported away from the western front for a well-earned rest

Austrian infantry in trucks, Western Front, WW1
Austrian infantry travelling in trucks through a French town on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Train crossing Orange River, South Africa, WW1
A train pulling loaded trucks across the Orange River in South Africa during the First World War. The driver and his mate are standing by the engine

Trucks crossing Orange River, Upington, South Africa, WW1
Trucks carrying railway material across the Orange River at Upington, South Africa (Northern Cape), during the First World War. Date: February 1915

Champagne Trolley
A three-wheeled trolley for transporting champagne, one of hundreds of different trucks and trolleys available in Slingsbys Patent Trucks List. 1910

Sewing Machine Truck
A truck constructed specially to carry sewing machines, one of hundreds of varieties of trucks and trolleys available in Slingsbys Patent Trucks List. 1910

Useful Box Truck
A useful box truck, one of hundreds of types of trucks and trolleys available in Slingsbys Patent Trucks List. 1910

Sliding Cover Dust Truck
A sliding cover dust truck, presumably for a street cleaner, or for transporting rubble or industrial rubbish with a cover to prevent said dust blowing away in the wind

Bakers Double Rack Truck
A bakers double rack truck for transporting numerous loaves of bread made from hardwood and wrought iron. (as in the truck is made from hardwood and wrought iron, not the bread!). 1910

Royal Engineers working party in trucks, Arras, France, WW1
A Royal Engineers working party travelling in trucks on a light railway, passing through a ruined building at Arras, northern France, during the First World War. Date: March 1918

Railway Refreshment Truck
A rather elaborate railway refreshment truck with urns, a glass cabinet and small railings around each shelf to keep refreshments from falling out

Wallpaper truck
A wallpaper truck used for transporting numerous rolls of wallpaper. One of hundreds of varieties of trucks and trollies available to buy in Slingsbys Patent Trucks List, 1910. 1910

Erskine Wharf - Wheat Export Yard, Karachi, Pakistan (still India at this stage). Date: circa 1909

A group of cowboys on the back of a truck, America

Japanese howitzers
Japanese 11-inch howitzers loaded on railway trucks ready to be transported to a forward area

Swansea main railway sidings, Glamorgan, South Wales
View of Swanseas main railway sidings on the Great Western Railway in Glamorgan, South Wales, with a large number of trucks loaded with coal

GWR navvies at Ferryside, Carmarthenshire, South Wales
A group of Great Western Railway navvies straightening the track at Ferryside, Carmarthenshire, South Wales

Armenian Refugees in open railway carriages, surrounded by Turkish troops

Glyn Pits, Pontypool, South Wales
External view of the Glyn Pits in Pontypool, South Wales

British ground support vehicles, Iraq
British ground support vehicles outside a fort in Iraq

Moving the Mexican Army during the time of the Mexican Revolution

German offensive WWI
German Offensive in Picardy, with transport columns on the march near Nesle in France during World War I

Railway Sidings
A moody photograph of a set of very dark railway sidings, with a sole sentinel signal box and a couple of small shunting steam engines, just beginning their days work

Internal Roadway at Daily Mirror Printing Works
Part of the Internal Roadway at Daily Mirror Printing Works, facilitating the delivery of newsprint by day and the despatch of completed newspapers at night. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Wartime Vauxhall Production
Military Bedford vehicles line the roads waiting for shipping from the Vauxhall Factory in Luton during World War II

Inflatable decoy truck
A Bedford MW inflatable decoy truck produced by Vauxhall during World War II

Turkish Prisoners being transported
Turkish prisoners being sent from Junction Station, Cairo in a captured Turkish Ottoman Empire train - World War One

Seaham Harbour, County Durham, is an important port for the coal mining areas of Durham. The South Hetton railway line with trucks heaped with coal can be seen running down to the sea

Railway Station, Mersin
The Railway Station, Mersin. A large city and a busy port on the Mediterranean coast of southern Turkey and is the capital of the Mersin Province

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